Ethics

What is good? What is happiness? What is virtue? What is free will and who is responsible for a person's fate and well-being? This is discussed by the proponent of rational behavior and moderation in everything, the great philosopher Aristotle. Three works devoted to ethics have reached us: Eudaimonian Ethics, Nicomachean Ethics, and Great Ethics. The question of the authorship of these works by Aristotle remains a subject of discussion. The author of Eudaimonian Ethics was most likely Eudemus of Rhodes, a student of Aristotle, who perhaps reworked his teacher's work. Great Ethics, which is actually just a small treatise briefly outlining Aristotle's ethical views, was written by a Peripatetic – an unknown student of the philosopher. And only regarding Nicomachean Ethics can it be confidently stated that its author was the great thinker himself. The last two works are included in the proposed collection, with Nicomachean Ethics published in the translation by E. Radlov, which was not published either in the USSR or in modern Russia.